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Posted on 12/01/2016 7:37:02 AM PST by Olog-hai
Police in Switzerland are arming themselves with assault rifles to be better prepared in the event of a terrorist attack, according to reports.
Stefan Blättler, chief of Bern cantonal police, told Swiss-German TV program 10vor10 that his service had bought assault rifles for its police officers and that “several” other cantonal police services in the country were doing the same, reported news agencies on Wednesday. […]
The advantage of assault rifles — a long-range selective-fire gun frequently used by the military — is that “they can be used over a longer distance”, he said. …
(Excerpt) Read more at thelocal.ch ...
All able-bodied males must serve in the military and they take their weapons with them at the end of their service. They also hold regular full-scale battle skirmishes (which my wife and I got in the middle of during our last visit). They also have explosive stashes at every mountain pass to put into pre-drilled holes in the road. We shared a dinner table one night in Andermatt with a colonel and a major during one of those skirmishes to the sound of gunfire all around the town. Pretty interesting.
And just what is it threatening Swiss safety?
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We have, in so many ways, become a latter day model for other nations of what NOT to do :-\
Very little, and for good reason.
LOL!!.................Looks a lot like the M-14 I used in USMC, back in the day...............The top one...........
““they can be used over a longer distance”
They must be sniper assault rifles. “
They are comparing them to the handgun a cop would normally carry.
The M-14 is a great rifle. In 1968 (that’s right, 1968) I shot Expert with one in Officers’ Basic at Ft. Lee, VA. I liked it so much that I bought an M-1 A about 20 years later.
“And just what is it threatening Swiss safety?”
Moslems internally, and surrounding European nations. In WWII they were completely surrounded. And it is easy to imagine it happening again as those nations fall to Islam one by one.
1973 for me.........B^)
The thing about the M-14 that I remember the most was the feel of the wood, real wood against my cheek...........strange.............
Death Cult games another Western society.
They’re both Ruger Mini-14’s I believe. So named because of their resemblance to the M-14. You probably know, but I couldn’t tell by your post.
I didn’t know what they actually were, but the resemblance to the M-14 is striking. Not having a frame of reference for size from that pic, it was very hard to tell exactly what the relative sizes were..................
Understandable. The giveaway is the lack of the lack of the gas piston tube under the barrel.
While 210,000 Abzug and reserve soldiers do have fully automatic SGW90 rifles, once retired after age 32 the full auto feature must be blanked out for the rifle to be retained. The number of Privated SGW 90 rifles is not published but around 8 to 9,000 are added to civilian circulation per year since year 2005. The number may have dropped since 2010, when it is required to get a police acquisition permit for the rifle when transferred to civil ownership. In addition there are around 178,000 STGW 57 rifles that have had the full auto feature removed in civilian hands, 3,500 PE 57 rifles and 35,000 PE 90 rifles. The PE 57 and PE 90 rifles are single shot variants of the STGW 57 and 90, that is a single round is fired with each pull of the trigger.
No military issue ammunition is held at home by regular reservists. Ammunition may be purchased at low cost at any range for use at the range, firing either the Obligatory, Feldschiessen or Einzelwettschiessen competitions, but no other use of the ammunition is approved, nor may such munitions be taken home, all cartridges purchased at the range must be expended there that same day.
It is possible to purchase RUAG manufactured 5.6 rounds but they are generally not the military bullet nor packaged as such. Commercial ammunition may be kept in the house.
IIRC, my M-14 had a big knob on it by the rear sight for windage corrections..................
You are correct. The M-14 rear sight has windage and elevation knobs. Far and away superior to the Mini-14.
Thank you for the information.
L
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